breast cancer

There is an increasing use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients; however, there is a need for a better understanding of the effectiveness on the tumor. Pathology plays a major role in finding how host factors interact with tumor characteristics. Patients expressing pathological complete response (pCR) is strongly correlated to long term survival in...

Cancer patients who consider going on a cancer clinical trial often start out with fears: Will I be treated like a guinea pig? Will I get a real drug or just a placebo? Will they be experimenting on me? Key benefits and barriers in clinical trials are explained in this video. It also features breast...